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Re: Urban Legend

Posted by: Meg Rosenfeld ()

Date: May 05, 2005 05:54PM

OK, I'll bite: what's untrue about "Chariots of Fire"? Did Eric Liddell not refuse to run on a Sunday? If so, well, the rest of his life (I've read a couple of biographies) was certainly consonant with his character as portrayed in the film. He died of a brain tumor while a POW in occupied China, where he continued to work as a minister and as an organizer of Boy Scout and Girl Guide groups among the POW children.

This very interesting thread started because I was giving a Referat (oral report; yes, I'm an aging German major) on the Grimm brothers, and wanted to start out with a couple of urban legends regarding these gentlemen--to wit, that they "wrote" the Kinder-und Haus MÃ¤rchen, and that we get our English word "grim" from their surname. Since, as a typical student, I didn't ask the question until it was too late to utilize the answers, I led into my Referat with something like "Many people 'know' that the Brothers Grimm . . ." (auf Deutsch, natÃ¼rlich.)
Regards,
Meg

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Meg Rosenfeld Wrote:
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> OK, I'll bite:  what's untrue about "Chariots of
> Fire"?  Did Eric Liddell not refuse to run on a
> Sunday?  If so, well, the rest of his life (I've
> read a couple of biographies) was certainly
> consonant with his character as portrayed in the
> film.  He died of a brain tumor while a POW in
> occupied China, where he continued to work as a
> minister and as an organizer of Boy Scout and Girl
> Guide groups among the POW children.
> 
> This very interesting thread started because I was
> giving a Referat (oral report; yes, I'm an aging
> German major) on the Grimm brothers, and wanted to
> start out with a couple of urban legends regarding
> these gentlemen--to wit, that they "wrote" the
> Kinder-und Haus MÃ¤rchen, and that we get our
> English word "grim" from their surname.  Since, as
> a typical student, I didn't ask the question until
> it was too late to utilize the answers, I led into
> my Referat with something like "Many people 'know'
> that the Brothers Grimm . . ." (auf Deutsch,
> natÃ¼rlich.)
> Regards,
> Meg